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Ask Leyla: Should I be avoiding soy?
Q: I read various health newsletters, books, and websites on nutritional advice, and I’d like your opinion on something I recently came across. It was one of those click-bait videos whose tagline was: “Which health food you should be avoiding?”…read more
Categories:General Nutrition GMO
Why you shouldn’t get your health advice from celebrities
Stars are lining up, telling us how to vote, what wireless networks to use, what luxury cars to drive. Now they’re weighing in on our health choices. Recently, Ben Stiller offered his take on the PSA test, a screening exam…read more
Categories:Cancer Men’s Health Prostate Disorders
Test your “Health IQ” – round three!
It’s that time again! Time for another installment of Intelligent Medicine’s “Test Your Health IQ” quiz. You can also test your knowledge in our previous quizzes, part one and part two. According to an article in The Los Angeles Times, American…read more
Categories:General Medicine
8 reasons why the FDA’s recent ban on anti-bacterial cleansers is a good idea
I’m not always the biggest fan of the Food and Drug Administration. Their efforts to curtail access to supplements are misguided. They miss the boat with drug approvals on medications that subsequently cause injury and death. But, this time, I…read more
Categories:Cancer Environmental Health Immunity Infections Microbiome
Ask Leyla: Bowels Movements: What’s regular?
Q: A lot of health gurus brag that they move their bowels three times daily. It seems one consistent bowel movement around the same time every day seems more natural. How important do you think it is to move your…read more
Categories:Digestive Health
Can a low-salt diet actually be BAD for you?
I consume lots of salt. I eat sour pickles and sauerkraut. I liberally salt my eggs, meat, poultry and fish. I take seriously the derivation of the word “salad” from the Latin “sal” [pronounced sel], which roughly translated means salted…read more
Categories:Hypertension Nutrition Controversies
Leyla Weighs In: “Do you want fries with that?”—The dangers of acrylamide
What is acrylamide? It’s a chemical compound that usually forms in starchy foods like breads, cakes, cookies, crackers, cereals and potatoes (chips and fries) when they are baked, roasted or fried at high temperatures (at least 248 degrees F). The…read more
Categories:Cancer General Nutrition
Leyla Weighs In: Eat pasta to get skinny? Not so fast
Oh but wouldn’t it be great if it were true? I have the study in hand so let me break it down for you: As reported in Nutrition & Diabetes, this observational study’s objective was to examine any association, if…read more
Categories:Nutrition and Weight
My foray into personalized genetic testing
Last year, I recorded a podcast exploring the potentials and limitations of personalized genetic testing. Recently, your intrepid science investigator (me!) submitted saliva and stool samples as kind of a science fair project; I test-drove some of the available personal…read more
Categories:General Medicine
Ask Leyla: I have a healthy BMI, but a high waist-to-hip ratio – what should I do?
Q: My BMI is 19.8 but my waist-to-hip ratio is .96. My body fat percentage as measured in a health club ranges from 38 to 40 percent! My doctor said it’s hereditary—both my mother and grandmother carried weight around the midsection….read more
Categories:Obesity
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Though we think of declining estrogen as the hallmark of menopause, it's actually common for…
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Up to 12 percent of Americans have ulcers at some point in life. Peptic ulcers…
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Gallbladder disease is a modern illness. An estimated 20 million Americans have gallbladder disease. The…
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Lately there’s been a lot of buzz about protein. Protein bars are all the rage.…
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Q: One of the weight loss systems advertised on radio claims that you have to balance…
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In the latest attempt to remove “stigma” from medical terminology, liver specialists have come up…
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